Pak-China international rail project gets commissioned

BEIJING- A research study regarding an international railway project linking Pakistan with China's Xinjiang province through Azad Jammu and Kashmir has been commissioned by China, according to a Times of India and China Daily report.

The rail link funded primarily by China would connect Xinjiang's western city Kashgar to the Gwadar deep sea port of Pakistan, said state-run China Daily while quoting the director of Xinjiang's regional development and reform commission, Zhang Chunlin on the subject. "The 1,800-km China-Pakistan railway is planned to also pass through Pakistan's capital of Islamabad and Karachi," Zhang had said at the two-day International Seminar on the Silk Road Economic Belt being held in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.